{"id":1259,"date":"2020-09-04T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/09\/04\/4410549-how-to-manage-the-dns-zone-at-cloudflare\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:06:47","slug":"4410549-how-to-manage-the-dns-zone-at-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4410549-how-to-manage-the-dns-zone-at-cloudflare\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage the DNS Zone at Cloudflare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have an active Cloudflare account, you can manage your domain&rsquo;s DNS zone via <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dash.cloudflare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloudflare Dashboard<\/a><\/b>. Log in there, select your domain and open the <b>DNS <\/b>section:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/dce82fc8-f159-45cd-9189-72419f1018b8.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once there, you will be presented with a DNS Zone:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/f826477f-7db1-4b3b-8360-01179a60d3b0.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To create a new record simply click on <b>Add record<\/b>, there you will be able to specify record type as well as other required fields:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/be48236f-78fa-4a0c-abdc-cd135f87e36e.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To edit an existing record, click on the <b>Edit <\/b>button near the preferred record:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/af624873-14f3-48e8-a615-299111769daa.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">It&rsquo;s worth noting that some records can be <b>Proxied<\/b>. It means whenever you check that record, e.g., on <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dnschecker.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNSchecker<\/a>,<\/b> it won&rsquo;t display your actual specified value. This is extra useful if you don&rsquo;t want other people to see your records &#128272;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Hostinger default DNS records:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4407237-where-can-i-find-mx-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger MX records<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4407303-where-can-i-find-a-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger A record<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Any DNS record changes trigger <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propagation<\/a><\/b>, which can take <b>up to 24 hours<\/b> &#128161;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing DNS records (NS, TXT, MX, A, etc) at Cloudflare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-managing-dns-records-at-different-registrars"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4410549-how-to-manage-the-dns-zone-at-cloudflare\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4410549-como-administrar-la-zona-dns-en-cloudflare\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4410549-comment-gerer-la-zone-dns-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4410549-cara-mengatur-dns-zone-di-cloudflare\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4410549-como-gerenciar-a-zona-dns-na-cloudflare\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/4410549---dns---cloudflare--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}